Crime and Punishment in America
FAIN: FS-10479-76
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903-4833)
Gresham M. Sykes (Project Director: January 1977 to present)
To survey the changing views in the United States concerning the use of punishment as retribution and as a means of controlling crime. Readings, drawn from sociology, law, psychiatry, and history will stress the historical growth of ideas in this area and encompass a wide range of intellectual positions.